Generac recalls around 64,000 portable generators

By CNN Newsource

Published September 17, 2023 9:06 am

By Michelle Watson, CNN

(CNN) — As a damaging hurricane season continues to knock out power supplies to communities across the US, Generac Power Systems says it is recalling thousands of portable generators due to the risk of fire and burns.

The generators were sold at major home improvement and hardware stores in the US and Canada from April 2011 through June 2023, the Wisconsin company told CNN in a statement Sunday.

Generac said the GP15000E and GP17500E units’ fuel tanks could “fail to vent adequately, causing the tank to build up excess fuel vapor pressure when operating under high ambient temperature and expel such fuel vapor when opened, posing fire and burn hazards.”

It has developed a repair kit available free to consumers.

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